Resignation Advice

Upon receiving written confirmation of your offer, the next step is to resign. This is often a daunting time and to ensure that this is as stress free and seamless as possible, we advise you to follow the following hints:

Resignation Meeting

• Always resign face to face.
• Avoid negative comments about your current role and organisation, instead focus on the positives about your new role.
• Re-assure your manager that you are fully aware of the projects and workload that will need to be handed over and that you will document this fully.
• Explain that you have documented all of the information in a formal letter.

Resignation letter

• Re-iterate the reasons that you mentioned during the meeting.
• State your intended leaving date.
• Keep the letter succinct and state that your decision is final.
• Remember that the letter will go in your employee file and you will be requesting a reference in the future, thus avoiding negative comments

Be careful of counter offers

Typically over 25% of candidates receive a counter offer from their current employer; there are many reasons for rejecting a counter offer to stay which include:

• You should not have to threaten to leave to receive a salary increase or promotion.
• If you stay, your loyalty will always be questioned.
• The organisation is likely to be making you an offer in order to buy time whilst they begin the search for your replacement.
• Your relationship with your boss and co-workers is unlikely to recover and you are likely to be seen as an outsider.
• Your employer will remember your resignation when they are looking to promote or indeed make redundancies.

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